June 2008
The following script can be put in /etc/init.d
and linked to from /etc/rcS.d
in order to modify the default Debian vesa
video driver on machines that have an NVidia card and have the NVidia drivers installed:
#!/bin/bash XORG_CONF=/etc/X11/xorg.conf NVIDIA_LIBS_INDICATOR="/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so" NVIDIA_CARD_INDICATOR=nVidia if [ -f ${NVIDIA_LIBS_INDICATOR} ] && lspci|grep VGA|grep nVidia > /dev/null ; then sed -i 's%\([ \t]*Driver[ \t]\{1,\}\)"vesa"%\1"nvidia"%' ${XORG_CONF} fi
On Debian machines, the proper links in /etc/rc
can be created with the command: sudo update-rc.d nvidia defaults
n
.d
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The above script doesn't ensure that the drivers are actually suitable for the card, and it certainly doesn't finetune the |